Shaelynn

Peak · girls
1998 · 74 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,940
since 1985

Shaelynn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shaelynn has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19801990200020102020peak #2,013, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,83816
2024#4,77228
2023#4,45431
2022#4,67129
2021#4,50730
2020#3,84137
2019#3,85138
2018#3,43845
2017#3,09152
2016#3,58843
2015#2,92759
2014#2,58268
2013#2,50871
2012#2,40177
2011#2,45474
2010#2,29683
2009#2,48576
2008#2,29585
2007#2,32882
2006#2,39678
2005#2,63664
2004#2,50367
2003#2,30173
2002#2,85452
2001#2,21173
2000#2,77752
1999#2,11572
1998#2,01374
1997#2,17463
1996#2,90141
1995#3,42232
1994#3,70429
1993#3,77628
1992#4,38223
1991#4,32923
1990#5,06018
1989#4,67019
1988#7,6919
1987#6,33511
1986#6,61210
1985#10,6775
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five girls were named Shaelynn! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Shaelynn is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Shaelynn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shaelynn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,997 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #6,838)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 1998 at #2,013 (74 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 22 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 21,417
  • Highest: 1 in 21,417 girls born in 2010 were named Shaelynn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,013 in 1998, was only 1 in 23,878 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 36.2% of all girls named Shaelynn (702) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s54#4,670 (1989)#7,197
1990s403#2,013 (1998)#3,388
2000s702#2,211 (2001)#2,479
2010s610#2,296 (2010)#2,914
2020s171#3,841 (2020)#4,847

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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